Yesterday was cold to say the least. There may have been a US Pond Hockey Tournament going on but Greg and I were sitting in our warm home with NO intentions to leave. It was nice. We didn't do really anything. We just watched some movies, cooked, and played dominoes.
The Holiday = chick flick = corny....LOVED IT! My favorite part of the movie was its great quotes or lines. It's amazing to me how much you can get from a movie. Here is the quote that I think so many people should really take to heart (when they are single).
Greg and I don't play games often if at all. So, it was a good change for us to play a game instead of going to a movie or watching TV. We got the dominoes out and after reading the directions for about 30 minutes we finally figured out how to play Mexican Train. What a fun game! So Greg kicked my butt big time, BUT I did win the last and final game before we decided to snuggle with Gabby and watch The Holiday.
"I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New Years Eve's brought in by tears and Valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms."
This is another line that I enjoyed:
Iris: Because you're hoping you're wrong. And every time she does something that tells you she's no good, you ignore it. And every time she comes through and surprises you, she wins you over, and you lose that argument with yourself, that she's not for you. Miles: Exactly, and on top of that there's the old standby, I can't believe a girl like that would actually be with a guy like me.
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